Using a local catalog outside of JDeveloper?

Question

Is it possible to establish a local catalog connection from outside of JDeveloper; that is as part of a deployed application?
I have tried including the catalog XML files in my JAR file and specifying the relative path to the files in the BI configuration file (i.e., PersistenceType="FILE" RootFolder="bidefs/BIDesigner/"). However, it seems that whatever combination of file location and configuration setting that I try I receive a catalog root cannot be found error.
Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so can you point me to an example?
(Note: I realize that in an actual production application that it is much better to use the database catalog, however, currently I’m simply working on a proof of concept and may not be able to create the catalog schema on my target database instance.)
Best Regards,
Matt
BI Beans Diagnostics(v1.0.2.0) 2/23/05
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JDEV_ORACLE_HOME .......................... = C:\oracle\ora92Dev
JAVA_HOME ................................. = C:\bea\jdk141_05
JDeveloper version ........................ = 9.0.4.0.1407
BI Beans release description .............. = BI Beans 9.0.4 Production Release
BI Beans component number ................. = 9.0.4.22.0
BI Beans internal version ................. = 2.7.5.31
Connect to database ....................... = Successful
JDBC driver version ....................... = 9.2.0.4.0
JDBC JAR file location .................... = C:\oracle\ora92Dev\jdev\lib\patche
s
Database version .......................... = 9.2.0.4.0
OLAP Catalog version ...................... = 9.2.0.4.1
OLAP AW Engine version .................... = 9.2.0.4.1
OLAP API Server version ................... = 9.2.0.4.1
BI Beans Catalog version .................. = 2.7.5.31
OLAP API JAR file version ................. = 9.2
OLAP API JAR file location ................ = C:\oracle\ora92Dev\jdev\lib\ext
Load OLAP API metadata .................... = Successful
Number of metadata folders ................ = 3
Number of metadata measures ............... = 0
Number of metadata dimensions ............. = 0
Metadata output location .................. = C:\oracle\ora92Dev\bibeans\bi_chec
kconfig\bi_metadata.txt

Answer 1

If you download the latest BI Beans 10g samples from the BI Beans section on OTN there is a sample called Analyzer. This sample uses a local filestore to save and retrieve all reports, calcs, saved selections etc created by the user during a session.
Hope this helps
Business Intelligence Beans Product Management Team
Oracle Corporation